Alexander Petrovich Kazantsev

Alexander Petrovich Kazanzew ( Russian Александр Петрович Казанцев , also often transcribed as Aleksandr Kazancev ; * August 20 ^July / September 2,  1906 ^greg. In Akmolinsk (today Nur-Sultan ); † September 13, 2002 in Peredelkino ) was a Soviet Science -Fiction writer and chess composer .

Life

After completing technical training, Kazantsev worked as a stenographer . Kazantsev studied at the Tomsk Technological Institute , where he received his doctorate in mechanical engineering in 1930 . He then worked as a senior engineer at the Belorezk Metallurgy , then went into research and worked at the Russian Research Institute for Electromechanics in Moscow.

1939 led Kazantsev the Soviet delegation in the United States, the Soviet pavilion for the World Expo , the 1939 New York World's Fair built. He returned to the Soviet Union shortly before the outbreak of World War II . In the Great Patriotic War , Kazantsev served as a soldier, where he became a chief engineer in a defense complex.

One of his earlier ideas, an intercontinental electric weapon, was taken up by Andronik Gewondowitsch Iosifian , who together with Kazantsev built small electrically remote-controlled tanks that were to be used against German tanks.

As a colonel , Kazantsev left the army in 1945 to become a writer. For this he settled in Peredelkino .

His grave is in Moscow's Vvedenskoye Cemetery .

writer

As a science fiction author, Kazantsev made his debut in 1936 with a competition for film scenarios with the film script for Arenida , which was won together with Iosif S. Shapiro, the director of the Leningrad House for Scientists, but which was never actually shot. The script was reworked into a novel and published under the name Пылающий остров ( Burning Island ) as the first novel by Kazantsev in Pionerskaya Pravda 1939–1940.

However, Kazantsev became known for his short story from 1946, in which an alien flying object with nuclear propulsion is the cause of the Tunguska explosion . At the end of 1945, Kazantsev had visited Hiroshima , which had previously been hit by an atomic bomb , and was thus inspired by what he perceived to be similarities in the places to the story, which was often taken up as a theory. So far, however, no evidence of a UFO crash has been found.

After one of his stories Kazantsev wrote with Pawel Kluschanzew the screenplay for the 1962 published science fiction film Планета бурь (Planeta Bur) , the German version of Planet of Storms , which an expedition to Venus and the existence of Venus man has on the subject.

Kazantsev propagated vegetarianism as the diet of the future. This conception flowed into his literary work. In the second volume of his trilogy Die Faeten , published in 1978, a Martian who lived many thousands of years ago is received on earth; if you bring him something to eat, it says: “He looked anxiously at the dishes. Dal 'translated his words:' I beg you to understand that the Martians do not eat corpses. ' Tanja was embarrassed: 'How then, how then! These are synthetic products. On Earth, just as you did on Mars, they learned to make artificial nourishing protein. ' - 'I knew it would be like that,' smiled the guest and carefully pushed a small piece into his mouth. "

Numerous other literary publications followed by the year 2000.

Chess composition

Since 1926 Kazanzew published more than 70 chess studies , as well as a number of two and three moves. From 1951 to 1965 he was chairman of the Chess Composition Commission of the Chess Federation of the USSR, from 1956 to 1965 Vice-President of the Standing Commission on Chess Composition at FIDE. In 1956 he became an International Chess Composition Judge . Finally, in 1975 he was awarded the title of International Master of Chess Composition .

Kasanzew's credo was that study composition is an art that not only depicts the thoughts of the chess fight, but also the objective laws of artistic creativity.

Alexander Petrovich Kazantsev
2nd USSR Championship , 1948, 2nd place

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White to move forces a draw

Solution:
1. d5 – d6! Na3 – b5 After 1.… Nc4 2. dxe7 Ke5 3. e8S Bh8 4. h7! a3 5.Kg8 Kxe6 6. Kxh8 Kf7 7.Nd6 +! Kf8 8.Nxc4 a2 9.Ne5! a1T 10.Nd7 + Kf7 11. Ne5 + Kf6 12.Nd7 + there is perpetual check .
2. d6xe7 Kd4 – e5 2. d7? Nd6 + 3. Kg8 Nb7 is no good.
3. e7 – e8S! Bf6 – h8
3. e8D? Nd6 + loses.
4. Kf7 – g8 Ke5xe6
5. Kg8xh8 Ke6 – f7
6. h6 – h7! a4 – a3
7. Nb5 – d6 + Kf7 – f8!
8. Nd6xb5 a3 – a2
9. Nb5 – d4! a2 – a1T! 9.Nc3? loses after underpromotion A1t! 10. Nb5 Kf7 11. Nc7 quickly and 9.… a1D? is patted .
10. Nd4 – e6 + Kf8 – f7
11. Ne6 – d8 +! Kf7 – g6
12. Kh8 – g8 Ta1 – a8
13. h7 – h8S +! Kg6 – f6
14. Nh8 – f7 draw

literature

• Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 226 f.
• Hans Joachim Alpers, Werner Fuchs, Ronald M. Hahn, Wolfgang Jeschke : Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature. Heyne, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-453-02453-2 , p. 596 f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Alexander Petrowitsch Kazanzew in the catalog of the German National Library
• Alexander Kazantsev in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Александр Петрович Казанцев on FantLab (Russian, accessed March 31, 2018)
• Short biography ( memento from April 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) at epilog.de
• Kazantsev's literary work (Russian)
• On the 100th birthday of Kazantsev (Russian-language website, designed by his son)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Alain Pallier: AP Kazantsev (1906-2002) . In: eg , 183, January 2011, pp. 31-37.
2. ↑ Graves of Famous People (Russian)
3. ↑ Massive Tunguska Blast Still Unsolved 100 Years Later . ( Memento of August 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) foxnews.com (English)
4. ↑ Strange Doings on Tunguska . In: Time (English)
5. ↑ James Oberg: Tunguska Echoes . ( Memento of February 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Donning Press, 1982 (English)
6. ↑ quoted from: Matthias Rude: Antispeziesismus. The liberation of humans and animals in the animal rights movement and the left . Stuttgart 2013, p. 141.
7. ↑ International judges for chess compositions
8. ↑ International masters for chess compositions
9. ↑ Anatoli Jewgenjewitsch Karpow u. a .: Chess - encyclopedic dictionary . Sowjetskaja enzyklopedija, Moscow 1990, ISBN 5-85270-005-3 , p. 144 (Russian)